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HERBERT L. STILLMAN, OF CHARLESTOWN, RHODE ISLAND.

i RAILWAY FOR HIGHWAYS.

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,515, dated January 18, 1898.

Application filed May 19, 1897. Serial No. 637,253- (No model.)

'ticn of cheap railways for highways and is intended for the use of Wagons and other ve hicles; and it consists of a rail of the approxiinatelyT forno designed to be made of the base and web of a stand ard scrap T-rail, with wood and guard sections of metal in combination.

The invention will be fully understood frein the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of a section of my railway with a portion of the ballast removed. Fig. 2 shows a cross-section of a timber. The dotted lines indicate how it is sawed to produce my compound Stringer. Fig. 3 shows a cross-section of niy rail as produced from the scrap standard T-rail. et shows removed head of the same.

Referring by letter to .said drawings, a shows the rail. h shows stringers.

c shows Fig.

the upper and outer parts of the stringers in a beveled position, so as to slide the wheels upon the rails. The guard-plates are secured by spikes. It will thus be seen that a cheap, substantial, and eectual carriagerailway can be produced.

Having described this invention, what I claim is- The improved highway-railway herein described,consisting of compound stringers with their tops beveled inclinin g toward each other so as to form a concave surface together cornbined with a rail of the T form having the head beveled on the under side to fit the concavity of said stringere, and the inclined guard-plates located at each side of the rail, as speciiied.

HERBERT L. STILLMAN. Witnesses FRANK H. ALLEN, MAY F. RITGHIE. 

